Monkees Calendars Ship! TV Show DVD Box set! Davy sings in

Thanks to all of you who pre-ordered the Monkees 2003 Calendar, we really appreciate your support! The calendars are now shipping and they look great. But don’t take my word for it, here is what our pre-order customers who just received their calendars had to say:

From: “Sally Carpenter”

Hi Brad, Got the Monkees calendar today. It looks really super! Very professional and colorful. I’ll enjoy looking at it all through next year.

From: Jeff Gehringer

Brad: Great work. Not only do you display many of the classic merchandise items from the 60’s, but you’ve also included many of the toys from the 90’s. Super color, great information on important dates in Monkee history. This is a real fan oriented calendar. Thanks again!

From: Donna

Hi Brad. I did receive the calendar and I like it very much. I love the pics of all the collectibles, although it makes me want all the things I don’t own. All of the little trivia throughout is fun too. I like the song dates, those are fun. I would definitely recommend it to anyone and hope you continue to make these in the years to come. I would certainly get one every year. Thanks so much for the excellent service and the great calendar.

From: Ccstone

Hi , yes I did receive it, I love it. It’s great to have to hang up all year. I hope there will be another one like it in the following years to come! I enjoy looking at all the collectible things I wish I had!!! Thanks Brad!

A whole year of MonkeeMania for your wall! A TIMELY Gift Idea!

This collectable 28 page All Color Monkees Calendar which includes 12 whole months and 365 days, including the bonus Monkeedays. Each month features a full color photo of Monkees collectable treasures in mint condition. Spot the ones you own…and the ones you are going to own!

This exciting professionally printed and bound calendar will be the talk of your work-place or home with colorful Monkees fun all year long. Plus you get the birthdays of all of the Monkees and their offspring, special days in Monkee history, plenty of room to write in your own special days, and the estimated pricing list for the items pictured.

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Davy Jones Solo Tour Dates

Although Monkees news has been a little slow since the end of the “Monkee Mania 2002 Tour” Davy Jones is still scheduling solo events for 2003. New dates include: 2/7/03 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Casino */*/* 7/3/03 Mason, OH Pine Hill Lakes Park */*/* 7/10/03 Chippewa Falls, WI No. Wisconsin St. Fair */*/* Davy is also scheduled to be at EPCOT’s Flower Power Fest. in Orlando, FL from 4/25-28/2003

Monkees On TV

A Micky Dolenz movie, “Mom Can I Keep Her?” will air on Dec. 11 at 2:00pm, Dec. 12 at 5:30pm, and Dec. 14 at 8am EST on the SHOTe channel. Also, a 2001 TV movie that Micky directed, called “Malpractice” will air on Life on Dec. 16 at 1pm EST. “Tapeheads,” a movie with a Mike Nesmith cameo will air on Dec. 17 at 7:25pm EST on TMC and TMCe. Additionally, the VH1 pop idols special “Bubblegum Babylon” featuring the Monkees among others will air on Dec. 18 at 1pm EST.

Maybe it was the tryptophan- and carbohydrate-induced naps afterThanksgiving dinners of turkey and dressing that helped them wake up soearly in the morning. Maybe it was just plain old caffeine, or excitement.Whatever the case, shoppers lined up at abnormally early hours Friday tomake good on the “door buster” deals so heavily advertised in Thanksgivingnewspapers.Hoover’s Riverchase Galleria opened up at 1 a.m., and according to JaneWaddell, who made her way from Arab to be one of the early birds, a sizablecrowd was ready to dive in once the doors opened.“We got here at 1 [a.m.] and had an awful time finding a parking space,” shesaid. “You couldn’t walk.”….And at least in the case of the Galleria, the early-morning bargains weren’tthe only draw for consumers.The mall held a concert featuring ex-Monkees front man Davy Jones in thefood court. He sang hits such as “Stepping Stone,” with witty banterinterspersed between sets, much to the delight of a large crowd gathered onthe floor and lining the upstairs railings.

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From: adf@monkeesrule43.zzn.com

Monkees News

New tentative information is available on “The Monkees” TV show’s season one box set from Rhino Home Video. Its tentative list price is approx. $80 and it should be released sometime in the early months of 2003. This month’s Nez News update contains some more information on his upcoming album “Rays” as well as what is also in the works: I was told by a Videoranch representative that Nez is trying to talk to “some folks about collaborating on a couple of the songs.” It was also said that its “kind of on the table right now” & that “no decisions have been made.” They mentioned that Nez has “been working a lot on America Gene, his second novel,” too. Although it is unknown when “Rays” or “America Gene,” he’s happy with how both are coming out.

On TV

The VH1 special about pop idols featuring The Monkees called “Bubblegum Babylon” will air on Dec. 1 at 2pm & on Dec. 2 at 5pm EST. Also airing on VH1 is “Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story” on Dec. 4 at 11am EST. Additionally, “Mom Can I Keep Her?” a 1998 movie starring Micky Dolenz will air on SHO (and SHOe) on Dec. 5 at 9:15am EST. On Dec. 8, at 12pm EST the Disney Channel will re-air Peter’s mid-90s appearance on the popular comedy “Boy Meets World.”

Shoppers dive into post-Thanksgiving frenzy –During the After Thanksgiving Rush in AL, A mall held a concert featuring ex-Monkees front man Davy Jones in the food court. He sang hits such as “Stepping Stone,” with witty banter interspersedbetween sets, much to the delight of a large crowd gathered on the floor and lining the upstairs railings.For full article visit,http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/12/02/3debb9ffd4e29

Today in Music: a look back at pop music :

In 1967, the Monkees made it four when “Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and JonesLimited” became the group’s fourth No. 1 album in the same year.

The Ridgewood Marching Band, while competing at the OMEA State Marching BandFinals in Ohio performed songs by The Monkees, Sadly the Coshocton Tribunereported that the songs were by “a group of jungle primates”

Telemark celebrates 55th anniversary:Published Nov. 29, 2002

“This weekend, former employees and loyal patrons will return to aresuscitated Telemark Resort to celebrate its 55th anniversary and rememberthe glory days of a pioneering place that gave life to such events as theWorld Lumberjack Championships and American Birkebeiner cross-country skirace and gave inspiration, and work, to families raised near Tony Wise’shometown.”The article goes on to talk about the Telemark history, and near the end,reports:“Wise booked rising music stars Bonnie Raitt, Buffalo Springfield and theMonkees, as well as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Jerry Lee Lewis.”Full Article: http://www.startribune.com/stories/503/3459409.html